The United Nations is ready to incorporate Israel and Hamas on its international listing of entities accused of violating kids’s rights and protections.
A UN spokesperson confirmed to AP Information that Israeli authorities have been notified of this choice.
The announcement comes forward of the UN’s annual report submission to the Safety Council subsequent week when the UN Secretary-Common António Guterres will add Israel and Hamas the annual international listing of nations and teams violating kids’s rights in armed conflicts.
Different nations on the listing embrace Russia, Syria, Yemen, Myanmar and Iraq.
Hundreds of Palestinian kids have been killed throughout Israel’s invasion of Gaza that started after the October 7 terrorist assaults by Hamas and different militants on Israel, although estimates of the exact quantity fluctuate.
The choice has additional strained relations between the UN and Israel, which have been deteriorating since Israel’s navy marketing campaign in Gaza commenced after the Hamas-led assault on Israel on October 7.
Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the UN, took to X to specific his fury on the secretary-general’s choice so as to add Israel to the “blacklist.”
I obtained the official notification concerning the Secretary-Common’s choice to place the IDF on the “blacklist” of nations and organizations that hurt kids. That is merely outrageous and flawed as a result of Hamas has been utilizing kids for terrorism and makes use of faculties and hospitals… pic.twitter.com/o1civfJFAk
— Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן (@giladerdan1) June 7, 2024
Erdan condemned the choice on X, saying, “The one one who’s blacklisted at the moment is the secretary-general whose choices for the reason that battle began and even earlier than are rewarding terrorists and incentivizing them to make use of kids for terror acts.”
In Could, Erdan stoked controversy throughout a Common Meeting emergency particular session when he pulled out a transportable shredder and symbolically destroyed the UN Constitution.
